Community Notes & Fact Checks
How to Ask a Fact Check Question
This field note is part of the FOBA learning stream. It is meant to orient readers and point toward better source work.
Key points
- A useful Fact Check begins with one exact claim, not a pile of related ideas.
- Good questions name the place, date range, people or community labels, source type, and what would count as support.
- Identity, DNA, legal-status, descent, tribal-status, or membership questions should be handled as high-sensitivity review items.
Next steps
- Write the claim in one sentence.
- List the evidence already seen and the evidence still needed.
- Suggest safer wording if the claim is meaningful but not yet supported.
Source trail
- FOBA Fact Check – Public request path.
- FOBA Claim Review – Review frame for evidence and recommended wording.